“Glory Warriors” at a Glance
A rundown of temporal attributes and historical peers shared by many Powdered Kegs
As part of my ongoing “Jigsaw Gens” series, I profile the various American generations (and “microgenerations”) identified by historians.
In This Installment
Featured Generation: “Glory Warriors” (aka Powdered Kegs, Green Springers, Princetonians, Bubonics, Proto-Hamiltonians)
Who they are: The generation who came-of-age during and after Bacon’s Rebellion, once the bubonic plague had ravaged England’s shores
When they were born: Approximately between 1662–1673
Key Members
Enforcers: José Naranjo, Opessa Straight Tail, Kakowatcheky, Peter Beverley, Richard Bland I of Jordan’s Point, Gurdon Saltonstall, Captain Nathaniel West of Poplar Neck, Queen Alliquippa, John West III, Mayor Isaac Norris I of Philadelphia, Robert Carter I, Pieter Van Brugh, William Rhett, Johannes de Peyster, Gawin Corbin, Phillip French II, Burgess Dudley Digges of Warwick County, Lieutenant Governor Robert Hunter of Virginia, Captain Thomas West of Poplar Neck, Burgess John Robinson of Middlesex County, Burgess Christopher Robinson of Middlesex County, Kiliaen van Rensselaer (Fifth Patroon)
Debaters: Cotton Mather, William Bradford, Samuel Shute, Johannes Schuyler Sr., John Holloway
Scholars: William Tennent, Benjamin Harris, Theodorick Bland Jr. of Westover, Experience Mayhew, Abiah Folger, Robert Beverley Jr., John Leverett the Younger, Samuel Penhallow, Benjamin Wadsworth, Arent Schuyler, Reverend Richard Baxter
Creators: Adolphus Philipse, Ebenezeer Cooke, Johannes Bleecker Jr., Raphael de Luxembourg, Johannes Abeel, Myndert Schuyler, Robert Livingston the Younger, Johannes Kelpius, Evert Bancker, Hendrick van Rensselaer, Bartholomew Green Sr., Stephen Delancey, Charles Bridges, Mildred Gale Warner
Cusp Cohorts
Preceding Microgeneration: “Royal Raiders” (1657–1661)
Prominent “Royal Raiders”: Thomas Brattle, Edmund Jenings, Pieter Schuyler, Hendrick Tejonihokarawa, Jacobus Van Cortlandt, Laetitia Corbin Lee, Josiah Franklin, Thomas Brooke Jr., Rip Van Dam, John Willard, Hannah Duston, Thomas Batts, Lawrence Washington of Warner Hall, George Mason II, Charles Carroll the Settler, Johannes Cuyler, Rice Hooe III, Abraham de Peyster, Daniel Fisher, Edward Nott, Hugh Drysdale, Jonathan Remington, Charles Gookin
Subsequent Microgeneration: “Pre-Continentals” (1674–1678)
Prominent “Pre-Continentals”: Mary Warren, John Custis, Tituba, Andrew Hamilton, Sassoonan, Paul Dudley, Elizabeth Hubbard, William Byrd II, Alexander Spotswood, Elisha Cooke Jr., William Tailer, Mayor James Logan of Philadelphia, Thomas Symmes, William Dummer, Thomas Larimore, Captain “Tewea” Jacobs, Mary Walcott, John Bolling, William Fishbourn, Governor John Evans of Pennsylvania, Christopher Witt, Rutger Jansen Bleecker, John Cruger
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